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"  ...a title he won 50 years ago in the Italian Grand Prix. September 10, 1961, Monza, Italy: Phil Hill became the first American to win the Formula 1 World Driver&amp;#039;s Championship. Piloting a 1.5-liter V-6 Ferrari, Phil captured the Italian Grand Prix, a race in which his teammate and rival, German Count Wolfgang von Trips, was killed.  Those are the basic facts from a half-century ago. Native Californian Phil Hill earned his way onto the Ferrari Formula 1 team during one of the deadliest periods in Grand Prix racing history. At Monza in 1960, he became the last driver to win a GP using a front-engine car and continued to win the next year in the all-new mid-engine &amp;quot;shark nose&amp;quot; F1 Ferrari. In one of the following links, you can read, in Phil&amp;#039;s own words, what it took to earn the title, a feat matched by only one other American \u2013 the great Mario Andretti. In the other link, Phil&amp;#039;s widow, Alma, tells what it was like to be married to such a remarkable man.   1962 Road &amp;amp;amp; Track magazine  But before you begin, as a U.S. fan of F1 you must know that the greatest disappointment of Phil&amp;#039;s GP career was that he was never allowed to race his title car in front of his countrymen at the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. Ever-irascible Enzo Ferrari wouldn&amp;#039;t send the title-winning cars to the U.S. and later had them all destroyed, ruining what would have been an important moment in racing history. Shame on him. In Celebration of Phil Hill:  Petersen Automotive Museum Exhibit: Phil Hill: The Life of a Legend &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Road &amp;amp;amp; Track gallery of Phil Hill prints &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; Special Edition Commemorative Phil Hill F1 Champion print &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; A Road &amp;amp;amp; Track Tribute to Phil: A Man Like No Other &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; From the R&amp;amp;amp;T Vault: Phil Hill in his own words &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; From the R&amp;amp;amp;T Vault: Life with a Champion &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt;  Related posts:   Phil Hill&amp;#039;s Formula 1 Title \u2013 50 Years Later Phil Hill Remembered at Monza Rick Mears Receives the 2011 Phil Hill Award  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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